I'm never going to retire.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

I'm never going to retire.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can t explain it.

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

I love New York. It is an amazing city, and the U.S. Open is a lot about the show. There are tens of thousands of spectators; these are some of the best courts in the world, and there is nothing like being here and making memories.

The question undoubtedly is or soon will be not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous or a consistent and regular notation.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Tears are sometimes as weighty as words.

Pride is the problem, humility is the answer.

Venezuela has the largest oil reserve, and Venezuela has to defend itself.

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.

Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.

Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

Los Angeles is such a widespread city, sometimes it's hard to see your friends, and food is a great way to get together it's a great way of giving love.

I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.

Discrimination is discrimination even when people claim its tradition.

I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.